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When the Chicago Cubs play their home opener on March 31, the team will immortalize Ernie Banks, who spent his entire 19-year career with the Cubs (1953-71), by unveiling a statue of him at Wrigley Field. The team is slow in honoring the man they call Mr. Cub in this way, given that 14 other teams have already erected statues to former playing greats. The club did, however, retire his uniform number in 1982, five years after he was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame – a career that saw him hit 512 home runs as a two-time National League MVP and perennial all-star shortstop. The teams that have unveiled statues to former players at their ballparks, with the number in parentheses, and the names of the greats: